This issue focuses on "Unsinkable Ships" by reviewing books, articles, advertisements and ephemera from the early 1900s. Other articles cover the R.M.S. Olympic building and early history, and the recollections of leaving Queenstown (Cobh) and the titanic based on correspondence of survivor Katie Gilnaugh Manning.

FRONT COVER (at right) A Liner Just Launched, is the title of a watercolor of Olympic that appears in A Day in a Shipyard.

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Volume 37, No.I97
Membership Year 2012 I st Quarter
May through July 2012

CONTENTS

49 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLICATION

UNSINKABLE SHIPS
By Ed and Karen Kamuda

BUILDING OLYMPIC
Adapted from "A Day in a Shipyard"

A NEW SHIP MODEL FOR THE TITANIC MUSEUM
By Jeff Alderman

A MATTER OF HUMAN RELATIONS
By Simon Mills

NEW DOCUMENTARY INCLUDES FORMATION OF THE TITANIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY

LOCATION OF TITANIC CENTENNIAL MEMO IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY AND FIRST LOOK

TITANIC CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL WEEKEND CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS

TITANIC CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL DONORS

KATIE GILNAUGH MANNING RECOLLECTIONS OF QUEENSTOWN AND THE TITANIC DISASTER
By Edward Kamuda

SEA POSTE

Bruce Ismay boarding a lifeboat—was he "ordered" or allowed in? Who designed the Europa and Columbia motif on White Star menu cards? Looking for information about a White Star button; was there a passenger ship called Victoria that picked up a message of distress from Titanic? Looking for information how tea was served on board Titanic.

BOOK REVIEWS

And the Band Played On reviewed by Ed Kamuda; Promise Me This reviewed by Ray Lepien; Racing Through the Night reviewed by Ray Lepien; The White Star Collection: A Shipping Line in Postcards reviewed by Paul Louden-Brown

BACK COVER (Below) Huge gantries built to hold Olympic-class ships fill the back:round in the circa 1911 postcard view of the Custom House in Belfast. (Kamuda collection).

Top (Not shown): A 1912 photo of Kate Gilnaugh's sister 1; Molly (standing) and Kate taken when she I. first landed in New York to prove to her ( family back home in Ireland that she survived the Titanic disaster. (THS collection)

Middle right (Not shown) Bow of steamship Arizona after hitting an iceberg at full speed. The ship's survival enhanced her reputation and the public took the view that a vessel could withstand a collision. (Kamuda collection)

Bottm right: The frames of an Olympic-class liner in the early stages of building. (H&W/THS collection)

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